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I haven't seen much discussion of what Microsoft's XDocs announcements imply about the W3C XForms, currently a Working Draft http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xforms-20020821/ Googling discovers almost nothing, other than the intriguing http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms/2002Oct/0043.html "- The "problem space" both Office/XDocs and XForms are addressing are similar, if not the same. - MS hopes to boost flagging Office sales with XDocs. == XForms is a really, really good idea, has a huge market, solves big problems." [The cynic in me suspects that HTML forms+client-side or server-side scripting hit the 80/20 point and that NEITHER will have a huge market ...] I was, however, struck by something in an article at: http://computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/xml/story/0,10801,75098,00.html "What is likely to happen is that [XDocs is] going to be picked up by rebel developers and power users in the organization, and they're going to start doing things much like people did with FoxPro and Clipper way back when," Plummer predicted. "And then one day IT is going to realize there's a lot out there." Back in the Good Ol' Days, the rebel developers picked up on open source implementations of open standards, and IT finally realized that "there's a lot out there". Thoughts?
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